On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Edward Kmett
Seen in code without prior knowledge `fromMaybe` can have its meaning intuited. (?:) on the other hand comes across as gratuitous.
Worse, if you're at all familiar with C or languages which borrowed its ternary operator, your expectation is that it will be related to Bool, not Maybe a. (And no, I wouldn't recommend it for that either; the next question is figuring out how the then and else legs are distinguished... and I don't consider the ternary operator particularly readable anyway.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net